Investigators find the highest concentration of the nerve agent Novichok on the Skripals’ front door.
Yulia Skripal was poisoned with a nerve agent just days after gaining access to a £150,000 "secret bank account" with proceeds from a house sale in Britain, it emerged today.
The money had belonged to her brother Alexander who died in mysterious circumstances in St Petersburg last year, the Daily Mail reports.
She had been given power of attorney over the cash in late February from her father, double agent Sergei Skripal, poisoned by nerve agent Novichok alongside her on March 4 in Salisbury.
The cash - now in an unknown Russian bank - was from the sale of the house he had shared in Britain with his ex-wife, Natalia, like Yulia, 33, the daughter of a GRU military intelligence colonel.
Natalia - now married to a tennis coach from Wales - sold the house, and paid half the sum to her ex-husband.
Sergei Skripal making a purchase in the Bargain Stop Store in Salisbury a few days before he was poisoned.
The "secret bank account" was disclosed by Sergei's niece Viktoria Skripal, 45, who aims to travel to meet Yulia in hospital in Salisbury this week.
The British authorities are preparing to grant her a visa so that she can become the first family member to meet Yulia, and also see her uncle Sergei, who remains in a coma.
Of Yulia's current condition, she said: "The only thing I discovered from our [Russian] diplomats is that Yulia has opened her eyes, can eat, drink and has even said a few words."
She and other family members have not yet spoken to her by phone or social media.
On the money she said: "Nobody knows this yet.
"At the end of February, Yulia received a general power of attorney from her father Sergei in order to take ownership of a secret bank account that belonged to her late brother Alexander.
"After his divorce, his wife Natalia paid him US$200,000 ($277,000), and he kept this money. It is in a Russian bank now."
Viktoria - from Yaroslavl - has repeated concerns she raised last month over Yulia's mysterious unnamed boyfriend, whom she had intended to wed.
"I think he is a strange man," she said.
Yulia Skripal is said to be conscious and talking now. Photo / Daily Mail
"We visited Yulia once in 2013. She was living with him in her father's apartment in [Moscow] then.
"And he did not even come out of the room to say 'Hello'. This man is like a phantom."
When Yulia was poisoned "he didn't even say 'miaow'."
There is speculation that his identity is being concealed for unknown reasons by the Russian media.
"Destiny moved us to different continents, hard to say now whether it was for right or wrong.
"Would he have gone that early if we were to still be together, or was everything preset in advance and my destiny was simply kind to me and took me away from becoming a widow aged 44?
A police officer walks past a forensics tent over the grave of former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal's wife Lyudmila in London Road cemetery. Photo / AP
"I don't know… But he will forever stay in my heart as a memory of, if not my adolescence, certainly my youth.
"A very wise friend told me that people who left us don't like us crying for them.
"They need our prayers. So if this is not difficult for you, please can you go to a church tomorrow and light up a candle for his soul to find peace.
